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Error Buzz

A short dull double buzz that signals an invalid action

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one-shot
length
0.34 s
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id
BMYFS79EN5

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0.00 / 0.34 sMP3 preview · Quick double tap
Preset
Spectrogram of “Error Buzz”, Quick double tap preset
Spectrogram of “Error Buzz”, Quick double tap preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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Tweak

renders in the CLI · WAV

Change parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.

Command
$ sb get BMYFS79EN5@1 --preset tap -o error-buzz.wav

How it's made

Source
a small electromechanical buzzer driven by a gated square wave. Two square-ish oscillators a few cents apart (plus a pulse-width-narrowed twin) give the reedy, slightly beating buzz; a sine sub at the fundamental adds weight.
Body
the small enclosure rolls everything above about 0.5–1.6 kHz off (low-pass, Q 0.8), so the square's upper harmonics are felt as a dull rasp rather than a bite. The cutoff closes a little over each pulse as the driver loses energy. A faint low-passed noise burst (under 500 Hz) gives the contact thump at each onset.
Envelope
two pulses of about 0.13 s separated by a 0.05 s gap; 6 ms raised-cosine style ramps in and out so the gate never clicks. The second pulse is about a minor third lower, which reads as "denied".
Variation
`rng` mistunes the oscillator pair by up to 6 cents; presets move pitch, dullness, grit and pulse spacing (soft thud, standard buzz, low growl, quick double-tap).
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
pitch90 – 260150HzPitch
dullness0 – 10.5—Higher values roll off more of the upper harmonics
grit0 – 10.35—Reedy beating between the detuned oscillators
pulse0.08 – 0.180.13sPulse length
gap0.03 – 0.10.05sGap
drop0 – 10.5—How far the second pulse falls in pitch (up to a fourth)
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

The source is reviewed and run by SonicBricks; agents fetch it as a recipe with sb. It is not published on this page.

Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('BMYFS79EN5@1')

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